These same folks who are up in arms about the Nanny State when it comes to large drinks and smoking have no concept of individual liberty, because they're perfectly at home banning a Constitutionally enumerated right 'for the children'. That includes speech and the right to bear arms. The irony is lost on them...

We live in a world where the people in power have two opposing ideas in their heads that they can magically agree are not at odds with each other.... (Witness cunt Feinstein's argument that the Assault Weapons Ban isn't a "ban"... it's a list of "approved" weapons.)

WTF planet did I land on?

At first, I thought I'd go for the blue switches, because most people seemed to gravitate towards them for their springy-ness. But I tried a black switch keyboard from Filco, and I decided black switches were for me.

They aren't hard to get used to, but the first few days, I was smacking the keys like I used to on my cheap-o pack-in keyboard. But after a few days of use, I find myself enjoying the black switches quite a bit. *YMMV* of course.

I did almost buy an RK-9000 blue switch, and maybe I will again for a spare. But for my daily keyboarding, I can't top my Filco.

Funny that... since it's a Superman story... he can't publish it himself.

And no one has the right to tell Card he CAN'T publish his work. (If it changed the Superman-ness).... and I hope he edits out the copyrighted Superman stuff and self-publishes. I'll buy it just to spite the easily offended nitwits who think anyone who doesn't agree with them is a hatemonger. (BTW, in case you missed it... I don't agree with Card. I agree with government being TOTALLY out of the marriage racket.)

They can... but they can't tell ME I can't read or watch it. They can do like we always say on ./ ("turn the channel")... if they want to voice their opinion on the matter by complaining, fine. If they want to boycott it themselves, fine. But pressuring the company to avoid running it (or showing it on TV...) gets into MY rights to decide for myself.

Censorship does exist outside of the government's will... when someone tells ME I can't watch or read something.

Which is why our system has built-in checks and balances to protect us from the "tyranny of the mob" (I forget which Federalist mentioned that)....

But by the same token, why are the people who are against what Card says so willing to censor his work? Isn't that a bit of irony? Why would someone who thinks that everyone deserves the right to get married also think it's perfectly okay to suppress someone else's opinion that doesn't jive with theirs?

I find it mind-boggling that his story was not put into print based on other things he said. Even if the story was rampantly anti-gay, it wouldn't matter (just don't buy the issue, or as the progressives say... "turn the channel"). What matters is if it's any good. We have some of the most vile works about the basest of human evil in both print and other media, but that doesn't mean it's an endorsement of those things.

Publishing Card's story is not an admission that he's right on Gay Marriage. (I for one think the government needs to be OUT of the marriage racket.)

Dude... put the bong down...

IBM, nope. AT&T? Nope. Monopolies that abuse their power suck. This wasn't about IBM or AT&T.

You can't be new here.... this is slashdot, after all...

And for my money, Microsoft can burn in the 10th level of hell.... not for their phone OS, but for the fiasco they created in their abusive monopoly days. Just because they make an acceptable phone for some people doesn't erase the vomit-inducing tactics that got them to this "pinnacle of asshattery"....

Their phone OS might actually be good. I, and a percentage of the commenters on slashdot, don't care. :) Don't take it personally.

Not yet... The houses aren't finished.

I agree.. software patents are pretty much getting away with the patent system's inability to keep up with technology.... which would ruin it for the truly patentable, because there's really no subtle way to fix the trivial without screwing with the legitimate.

I can't divorce a software patent from the mathematical algorithm it came out of... I may be horribly missing the point, but I always think patents are about physical items and methods. There might be a software patent somewhere that would qualify... we've just not seen it yet. :)

Until we do, I think we should follow the EU's lead and say no to software patents. :)

*golf clap* Just because I said Software Patents are evil doesn't mean I don't think there are other evil things out there... You're on slashdot (as an AC) telling everyone else about the "big world" out there? Are you really retarded? Or did you just learn the world isn't flat and you want to share it with the rest of the tribe?

I thought that while watching other people handle the controller, but once I got it in my hand, it felt great, wasn't heavy, and I love playing the new Mario on the screen while having my TV freed up to allow other folks to watch TV.

No, but they did have Madworld and House of the Dead Overkill (which was funny as hell)...

You should've seen the protoype. Bill Gates couldn't even lift it to take a picture.

Most of the people here get it. They get that Software Patents are inherently evil and wrong and should be abolished... and the patent trolls of the world need to all die in a fire. Reforming the Patent system to prevent patent trolls would go a long way towards making the Patent system what it was intended for...

Until then, we'll see extortion like this from Microsoft (and everyone else).... I rather like the "hippie free-love software"... but then again I don't play in Apple's or Microsoft's sandbox.

The rest of them can suck my balls.